Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-17
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r1S Livelihood.
NEW SXE, Jan l5.--New York has
not a1taf the unique distinction re-
Gently bNpaad by Paris OF maintaining a
beggar iaG ~ for Dlaiming little chill
dren, so aS TO render them objects of
pity. Neitheg has it yet reached up to
London in theN possession of necessary
Stores" wherein every earthly thu in
use by man is kept on sac. But, after
all, New York Is big enough to supply
many ingenious persons with very curl
GUS occupations. the scheme OF our
''clean towel company" newly started
for supplying business offices with clean
towels and soap, we ought not to boast
of. since We borrowed the notion from
Chicago. We are alone, however, in pa
tiently permitting an aud6ciouS TeutOn
near chatham square to keep hand Or
gaus in mi chiet by repairing them. He
assumes TO replenish them with new
tunes, but, of course, that is a fiction;
for no hand organ was ever heard to play
any but 0a d. headed and middle.aged
music. New York maintains. also, at
leas one establishment for fitting little
children for the stage and the ballet.
The accom- pllsbed woman in charge of
this used, whether she still does or not,
to certify TO the beauty of the s'upder-
staGdin4s," so to speak, of females who
applied Tor a chance to exhibit them-
selves in theatres where spectacular
pieces are 10 be presented.
Two courageous New Workers follow the
useful tut unpoetlc business OF hanging
their fellow citizens. They are not preiu-
diced in favor of New Workers., but are
easily persuaded to hang men elsewhere
throughout the Union. 1t is always pre-
tended that no one knows their names
and that only the Sheriff of this county
has their addresses, One Is a Hebrew
dubbed ''lsaacs," and the other is Ger
man, called "Minz9shelmer;" but toe
city always Jumps them both under the
one name OF Joseph Is. Atkinson,
and under that name they draw their
pay. Tney rig the gallows and finally cut
the rope. One other sangunary citizen,
in TWeuty-rhird street, swings the shin
gle declaring HIM to be The DESTROYER
of 81 oths."
Four prosperous citizens earn their
nvellhoOds as doctors for the lap dogs OF
rich women. AS rule the only medi
cine they use is starvation. They fling
the dear pelS into barred boxes and de.
prlve them OF food for four day, 6aving
found out that the usual trouble with pet
dogs is that they are fed extravagantly
and improperly. just east of the Bowery,
in tenement house, resides man whose
business il is to rent himself and his
Punch and judy show to chlldren's par
ties in the brOwn-stone wards. a PEI son
on the BoWery keeps SIX or eight girls
busy framing wreatks and pictures of
tombstOnes, wherein are set forth the
virtues Of deceased New Workers.. He
follows where the death notices in the
paCers lead him, and works upon the feel
iDgs of the grief-stricken families.
A rich Italian employs a horde of his
cOuntrymen to trim or balance the loads
upon the scows OF our street Sweeping
Department. These trimmers save for
him all the rags, fat, bone, metal and
Other convertible refuse flung into the
househ0lder's ash barrels. Another man
JIG making fortune by carrying Oft all
the waste and refuse the city will not re-
move, sucu as builders leavings, dirt
from cellar diggings, and so On. The
builders pay him to take it, and then he
sells ii IN tue suburbs for tillingIE sunk
en- lands.
Only one man in town pretends to keep
Photographs OF all the notable persons in
the world. There is not room for two in
the business. Another citizen sells to
public men and corporations clippings
from all the newspapers that mention
them, at cents d clipping added to
subscription fee each year. Yet another
grees for all VINO think theirs have been
overlooked, or that they may get them
from families OF the same, or nearly the
same, names as their own. This is quite
English and thefore popular. 1t is said
that the carriage makers are giving
away coats OF arms like cnrOmos. Law
yer I'd Price, the eX-pugilist, has mo-
nopoly as tue attorney Tor tie Chinese.
The laundry men all seek him when in
trouble. and ALWAYS paw him in silver
dollars. The trade In painting black eyes
with mixture OF six parts white paint
and one part RED now boasts several es-
adjustments. 1t is not pOpuarlZ ny the
black eye, because it only covers up the
scandal without removing recollection
OF the accompanying licking"
One New YORKER has posted himself
about all the unclaimed estates in chris
tendon and thus profits by weakness,
more general than most folks imagine.
Another New Yorker searches the streets
at night with a lantern for coins and
purses dropped during the evening. A
woman near the City Hall takes care OF
the babies whose widowed mothers have
TO 20 out to work, and VINO check them,
like umbrellas, i'll the morning and call
for them in the evening. Many women
in the east side tenements take care OF
baby or TWO for their neighbours, but this
down town one is, i think, the only regu-
lar safe baby sale deposit company or
storage warehouse in town. There is no
matrim ouiaI agency or husbands eX-
change newspaper here just now. There
have been many out all have failed.
That scheme is not so profitable as That
OF q man. met the other day, who told
me he trained valuable dogs to come
straight back to him as Otter as he sold
them. JULIAN RALPH.